CAR RIDES
Update
rest of the day. At 9.40am, standing outside the workshop in dappled sunshine, we decided, we’d ‘go for it’ and run for as long as possible. We didn’t stop from 10.30am until the close, with the exception of the car and bike demonstrations in the lunch hour. On Friday we started at 11.00am and ran through until 4.00pm so, in essence, it was a repeat of Easter, with two full-on days and the rest washed out. One mother, by then with an almost empty purse, summed up the two sunny days when she said to her young child, “OK, we’re going one more time, then we are going home!” Sue Lewin’s hard work with recruitment paid
The Car Rides team assembled for briefing (Keith Barry).
on the Bank Holiday Monday, the half-term ar- rived for us on Tuesday with a portend of doom- laden weather… which proved itself on day one. We drank tea in the café as the rains came down before the Car Rides start time, then drove home in even heavier downpours, which continued both afternoon and evening. Brian Williams kindly offered to do a track check at 7.00am the following morning but this merely served to confirm our worst fears; that the circuit was too waterlogged to operate on safely. Thursday’s forecast was even worse, with
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biblical rain predicted from 10.00am and the addition of thunderstorms at 11.00am for the
Looking resplendent in ‘Whites’, the team ready to welcome the Museum of the Year judges (Keith Barry).
fter basking in Mediterranean style sun- shine the week before and, unusually, also
off and we were joined for the first time by the new guys on circuit for their introduction to us and what we do to be ‘rides-ready’ in the work- shop in the weeks beforehand. Talking of the workshop, we were ready to start shaking down the newly re-modelled GA2 by the end of the half-term, so the car should be on duty for the summer. Brooklands has become a popular destination
for disabled, including dementia sufferers, and special needs groups because we ensure that they receive exactly the same full ‘Brooklands experi- ence’ as anyone else and we’re proud to have given everyone who’s ever wanted a car ride, a lap of the circuit. It’s still nice though when people from these groups take the time to write in and we received a really nice thank you from one such group. The team were delighted to be the ‘opening act’
for the Museum of the Year judges during their visit and they all seemed to have those Brooklands smiles after their lap. Fortunately the weather was
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